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Examples of updraft
updraft
For instance, the Turrialba plume has relatively minimal updraft and wind shear.
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Would our home explode in an updraft of glossy prints and curly brown negatives?
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At the crest above Greene's house it took on new oxygen from the valley's updraft.
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As the updraft intensifies, it creates an area of low pressure at the surface.
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They form when a strong convective updraft is formed near the ground on a hot day.
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This term technically applies to a single thunderstorm with one main updraft.
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A similar idea, the solar updraft tower, also borrows from a project of yesteryear.
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When open, the skylights will create an updraft, allowing warm air to rise and escape.
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He said he could not predict when the industry will catch an updraft again.
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- A strong upward air current
- An updraft or downdraft (air pocket) is the vertical movement of air as a weather related phenomenon. One of two forces causes the air to move. Localized regions of warm or cool air will exhibit vertical movement. ...
- Updraft is a fictional character from the toyline, comic books and cartoon series.
- A small-scale current of rising air. If the air is sufficiently moist, then the moisture condenses to become a cumulus cloud or an individual tower of a towering cumulus or Cb.
- A current of air that has a marked upward vertical motion. Updrafts keep cloud particles suspended in the air.
- Air currents moving vertically upward. Updrafts typically produce cumulus clouds.
- The ascending flow or movement of air, or other rising gas.
- A small scale current of air with vertical motion. If there is enough moisture, then it may condense, forming a cumulus cloud, the first step towards thunderstorm development. Contrast with a downdraft.
- A term applied to a kiln in which the direction of travel of hot gasses from the fire is continuously upward through the ware chamber to the chimney and eventual freedom.
